A student asked if it was possible to browse our collection of DVDs; she was looking for documentaries on a subject, but didn’t know of any specific titles, and a keyword search of GIL seemed to return only books.

In fact, you can limit a search of the GIL catalog by many factors, including material and location. In this case I helped the patron to limit the search to things in our Media Department, which houses all film and video for the library. Here’s how: